World Food Day 2018

Today is World Food Day - the birthday of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The global celebration honours the common goal: a world free from hunger and poverty.

Every day over 800 million people are chronically undernourished and struggle to get any food at all facing the threat of starvation. That’s more than the inhabitants of Indonesia, the USA and Pakistan put together.

The Zero Hunger mission aims to reduce that staggering figure down to ZERO.

But how?

The FAO has launched a number of programs as part of the Zero Hunger mission that involve Governments, Small family farmers who interestingly make up 90% of farms in the world, Private Sector and the individual, particularly the youth.

Image: Mascot for the World Food Day 2018 and the children who have already chosen to take action and are taking flight! (http://www.fao.org)

You may feel strongly about this cause but feel unsure how to help...

We've put together some simple tips you can follow to help solve the Global Hunger Crisis:

Make a conscious effort to avoid food waste.

Try make one meal a week and all veggie meal.

Be conscious about water wastage

Don’t litter – keep the ground and water clean.

Buy local whenever you can – the shorter the journey between people and produce is the better.

Add some green to the scene and eat home-grown healthy veg by building and looking after a garden at school, in your local community, or even grow some on the balcony of your apartment.